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The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Becoming Self-Sufficient

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Epic Gardening

Home & Garden, Education, Leisure, How To

4.81.6K Ratings

🗓️ 9 March 2021

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

Liz Zorab from Byther Farm is on the show this week, talking about her journey into homesteading and self-sufficiency. Connect With Liz Zorab: Liz Zorab is a homesteader from the UK, and the author of Grounded: A Gardener’s Journey to Abundance and Self-Sufficiency. Byther Farm Website Byther Farm YouTube Byther Farm Podcast Liz Zorab on Instagram Liz Zorab on Twitter Liz Zorab on Facebook Buy Birdies Garden Beds Use code EPICPODCAST for 5% off your first order of Birdies metal raised garden beds, the best metal raised beds in the world. They last 5-10x longer than wooden beds, come in multiple heights and dimensions, and look absolutely amazing. Click here to shop Birdies Garden Beds Buy My Book My book, Field Guide to Urban Gardening, is a beginners guide to growing food in small spaces, covering 6 different methods and offering rock-solid fundamental gardening knowledge: Order on Amazon Order a signed copy Follow Epic Gardening YouTube Instagram Pinterest Facebook Facebook Group Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome back everyone to the Epic Gardening podcast.

0:16.3

This week we have Liz Zorab on the show.

0:19.2

She's a homesteader from the UK and she's the author of Grounded, a gardener's journey

0:23.7

to abundance and self-sufficiency and that is what we're going to start talking about.

0:29.6

And this week is this very first episode with Liz is going to be about her story and

0:34.0

how she started to become self-sufficient.

0:36.7

So welcome to the podcast Liz.

0:38.5

Hello and thank you so much for having me on.

0:42.5

Yeah, of course.

0:43.5

And so we just only recently met and so I think both even for myself and then also everyone

0:49.1

listening, I think it'd be fantastic to have maybe a quick little origin story of how

0:54.4

you came to be where you are.

0:57.2

Okay, that would be, that's really nice, quick, a quick, a quick pricey.

1:01.3

I spent about 20 years or more, most of my career, working with specialist housing charities

1:09.7

and in community development, working with volunteers and about six years ago I became

1:16.0

quite ill.

1:17.0

Realized I was never going to be going back to that working environment and had to find

1:21.6

a way to have some sort of financial input into our family without necessarily leaving

1:27.9

the premises.

1:28.9

And so I made this a rather rash suggestion that I could grow all of our food or the majority

1:35.6

of our food as my financial input into the household.

1:40.6

And so for the last five years I have been developing, creating and now producing a garden

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